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(No ModeL) W. P. RYLANDER.

CLOTHES POUNDBR.

Patented Aug. 31,1897.

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.1 1i 1 a i l 1 part UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

w-ILLIAu r. RYLANDER, or TEMPLE, TEXAS, .issIexon TO 'rn'a'nor AIR\VASIIIXG MACHINE 00., or SAME rLAon.

CLOi'HES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 589,399, dated August31, 1897.

Application filed mum 5,1297. satin No. 618,022. (no ads To all whom itmay concern: Y

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM P. RYLANDER, a citizen of the United States,residingat Temple, in the county of Bell and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful .Improvements in Washing-Machines; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, suchas will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to the class of laundry, and particularly to aclothes washer adapted to be immersed with the clothes and proper amountof hot or coldwater in a suitable washtub or other vessel ordinarilyused in washing clothes.

A further object of the invention is to provide an automatic clotheswasher and soaper whereby the clothes are soaped and cleansed by oneaudthe same operation.

A still further'object of the invention is to providea simple,durable,'and inexpensive clothes-washer of such novel and peculiarconstruction that the parts thereof may be readily separated forconvenience in cleansing such parts and to be packed fortransportationand storing.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement ofparts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and set up in theappended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming of this application, Figure 1 isan elevation of my improved soapenand washer. Fig.

7 ing a slot 4 upon opposite sides, a cap 5,

2 is a central vertical section thereof. Fig.

3 is a section of a modification.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the severalfiguresof the drawings.

The cylinder 1 has an open bottom and a conical top 2, provided with asleeve 3, havci an a bottom rim 6. A slidable collar 7 is secured uponthe sleeve 3 by a pin 8, extending through the said slots 4. A spiralspring 9 surrounds the sleeve 3, one end of which engages the rim (3 andthe other end the cap 5. A red 10, having a hooked engagement with thepin 8, carries a handle 11, or a s'uitable le'ver'may be attached. Aplunger 12, having an open bottom, is provided with a flange and aconical top 14. Extending upward from the apex of the cone-top 14. is ahollow bar or tube 15, which reaches to the handle 11 and is providedupon opposite sides with a slot 16, similar to and registering with theslot 4. The rod 10 is inclosedby this tube 15 and firmly connects thelatter with the said handle by means of a nut 16.

Depending inward and downward from the cone-top 14; is the soapreceptacle or vessel 17 5 having a series of apertures 18 and aremovable bottom 19, provided with L-shaped slots 20, adapted to beengaged by the lugs or projeetions 21 on the sides ofthe receptacle tolock the bottom in place.

Referring to the modification shown in Fig.

fitting closely the sides of the cylinder 1,

3, the sleeve 23 and tube 2-l are without slots and the spiral spring 24is inclosed by the said sleeve and has one end resting on the bottom ofthe sleeve 23 and the other end engaging a flange 27 of the tube, thushousing the spring and accomplishing the same results as in thepreferred form.

In the operation of the soaper and washer the cylinder 1 is pushed intothe tub or other vessel containing articles to be washed and the handleoperated to oscillate the plunger back and forth,whieh forces the waterthrough said articles and at the same time thoroughly soaps them, for asufficient amount of water is admitted into the vessel containing soapto make suds, and the latter is sprayed out through the apertures 18. Inthis operation it will be observed that no pressure is required to makethe upward stroke of the plunger, as the spring performs this function.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to.secure by Letters Patent, is 1 1. In a clothes washer and soaper, thecombination with the cylinder having a sleeve projecting from its top,of an openbottom imperforate plunger having a tube projecting from itstop through the sleeve, andprovided with a handle, and a soap-receptaclehaving an imperforate top and bottom and dependingfrom the inside top ofthe plunger, and provided with a series of side apertures.

2. The combination with a cylinder having a cone-shaped top, anda sleeve'proje'ction tures, and side pins, and a solid removable 1o integralwith the top, of an open-bottomilnbottom provided with L-shaped slots,as set perforate plunger inclosed by the cylinder forthl and havingacme-shaped top, and a tubular In testimony whereof I aflix my signatureprojection integral with the said top and proin presence of twowitnesses.

jeeting through the sleeve, and an operating- WVILLIAM P; RYLANDER.handle secured to the said tube and a soap- Witnesses:

receptacle depending from the inside top of S. B. ALEXANDER,

the plunger, and having a series of side aper- V V. R. TYLER.

